Old – The Sands of Time
Watching this film on the beach that makes you old would take four years. Feels about the same as watching it in my living room. ZING! M Night’s fourteenth film, Old, is all over...
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Blade Runner – The Future is 4 Years Ago
Do bloggers dream of REM sleep? Yes. I’ll pass it over to Tori right away to give her thoughts on Ridley Scott’s science fiction extravaganza. Pre-viewing: I vaguely know that this movie is somewhat...
You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah
The whole Sandler clan shows up here, starring as a nuclear Jewish family loosely based around them (although, Jackie Sandler is perplexingly playing the mother of a different family in the film, replaced by...
Glass – Shattering Expectations
Samuel L Jackson in a superhero film? Naturally. Glass is a superhero film that begins like any other. Equipped with a cool new nickname, “The Overseer”, Bruce Willis’ David Dunn searches the streets of...
The Prestige – The Magic of Movies
Christopher Nolan’s 2006 film The Prestige is also his most underrated. When looking at rankings of his films, I never see this one near the top. However, I’d put it behind only Interstellar. It...
Gran Turismo – Pedal to the Metal
If you take the country’s best Fortnite players and enlist them in the army… America’s 12 year olds could conquer the world. Gran Turismo is the almost unbelievable true story of a gamer who,...
Split – Examining the Shattered Psyche
The last thing I split… was my pants! Haha. Split is the story of Kevin Wendell Crumb (James McAvoy), a man with Dissociative Identity Disorder, who kidnaps three teenage girls and holds them in...
The Big Lebowski – Dude, Man
The Big Lebowski is a movie about… The Dude. The plot is unimportant, really. It’s the characters and the world they inhabit that make this an essential movie 25 years later. Going in, I...
Retribution – Liam Neeson Is So Back
Liam Neeson is 71 years old and he is still making action movies… or trying to. He was sitting down for at least 90% of the runtime, and he is in every scene. When...
The Visit – Weekend at Grandma’s
Over the river and through the woods, to grandmother’s house we go! What a deeply disturbing film. Also, surprisingly funny. After Shyamalan’s previous films, Hollywood had all but given up on him. Had he...
